Easily find more local news coverage at your fingertips with our new look

THE OLYMPIAN | • Published April 21, 2009

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The newspaper you’re holding looks a bit different from the one you’re used to reading.

We’ve redesigned The Olympian to offer a bolder look on Page One and to pack more news and information into the paper.

About the changes:

• A new column down the left side of Page One features quick-read items and highlights of what’s inside.

• Stories that continue from Page One now “jump” to the back of the A section so you can flip the section over and continue reading.

• The daily Business page moves inside the A section Tuesday through Saturday.

• A full-size Living section replaces the OlyInside tabloid on Sunday. The TV Book will be a separate section.

• The daily and Sunday Living sections still include all of the features you’ve come to expect, along with expanded coverage of Food on Wednesday, Outdoors on Friday and Home and Garden on Saturday.

• John Dodge’s Environment page moves to the A section beginning Monday. John’s Soundings column will move to Page One on Sundays.

What’s not changing is our commitment to local news and information. The Olympian has the largest news-gathering staff in Thurston County and will continue to provide comprehensive coverage of our communities and people, state government, the environment, the outdoors and much more.

Oh, there are two other changes worth mentioning. During the redesign, we asked our former newsroom artist, Fred Matamoros of Lacey (now an artist for our sister paper, The News Tribune), to update the Capitol dome, which has been a fixture on our front page for years. Fred did that, and the result is the lovely pencil drawing that graces our redesigned nameplate above.

We also decided to change the slogan at the top of the page, which for years was “Serving Washington’s South Puget Sound.”

We think the new one, “Serving the Washington state capital for 119 years,” better reflects our long history in this unique community and our commitment to its future.

Thanks for reading The Olympian.